Class Formation in Sweden and Britain: Educating Workers. (12th October 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Jansson, Jenny
• Is Part Of: International labor and working class history. Number 90(2016:Autumn)
• Page Start: 52
• Page End: 69
• Publication Date: 2016-10-12
• Subjects: Working class -- History -- Periodicals; 305.56205
• DOI: 10.1017/S0147547916000247
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0147-5479

Abstract

Abstract: The European labor movements developed in different directions during the twentieth century. The class formation literature has tried to explain these differences but left unexplored the internal dynamics of the labor movement and, above all, the differences in ideological schooling. Workers' education constitutes a forum for ideological schooling of members, and these educational settings can be identity constitutive and thus play an important part in the class formation process. In this article I analyze the institutions for workers' education in Sweden and Britain and I suggest that the variation of the design and practices of workers' education had an impact on the movements' developments in terms of identity formation and cohesiveness.